Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there looks up. He is of indeterminate age but clearly senior bearing. He smiles slightly, then turns down the volume of an old radio that is playing a familiar fragment from Mouret's Symphony and Fanfare for the King's Supper. He crosses his legs, letting the toe of his bench-made oxford dangle a little above the floor and occasionally-at moments of infrequent agitation-allowing it to graze the surface of the carpet underfoot...
...spent writing and revising an English-language manual for a new " TV-set model. Then at 4:45 p.m., he | and his colleagues stood and again sang the Matsushita song. That was not, however, the end of Saito's day. He returned to the cafeteria for a light supper of grilled fish and then walked upstairs to a 2½-hour English-conversation class. Saito returned home at 9 p.m., when he and Etsuko shared a snack, accompanied by a daily tot of two whisky-and-waters...
...knew about the assistant manager, my friend's father, was that he had cable TV and a Praise the Lord Club sticker on the back of his beat-up blue New Yorker. He and his family also owned a Woolworth's tapestry of DaVinci's "The Last Supper." The manager, who wore bell-bottoms over his brown patent-leather shoes, looked just like his picture on the "This is Your Super-Saver Manager" sign above the customer service desk, so everyone knew...
Caldwell is willing to sacrifice some of the Shakespeare text for pageantry and graphic effects. The guests at the feast where Banquo's ghost appears are seated on one side of a long refectory table resembling the one in Da Vinci's The Last Supper, thus carrying resonances of sacrilege...
...particularly festive night in the 288-room Sheraton Hotel in the hills behind San Salvador. The hotel's new roller disco was crammed with teenagers, many of them students from U.S. schools home for the holidays. In the Izalco Supper Club, older couples danced to an eleven-piece orchestra. Across the hallway, in the Salon Centre America dining room, three men chatted earnestly over coffee. Without warning, two well-dressed men stepped into the nearly deserted restaurant, pulled out automatic pistols and sprayed the three diners with 9-mm and .45-cal. gunfire, hitting them in the chests...